Barton County, KS jobs, unemployment and layoffs

Barton County’s unemployment rate is 4.4%. No WARN layoff notices here in the last 12 months. 5 open professional jobs are in its cities.

Barton County economy

4.4%
unemployment, Aug 2026
4.1% the month before
12,258
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
25,275
people in Barton County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$56,733
median household income
Source: Census ACS
34%
of workers in white-collar occupations
Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

Barton County layoffs

No WARN layoff notices naming Barton County in the last 12 months are on file. WARN covers employers with 100 or more workers, so smaller layoffs are not in it.

All layoff notices in the state

Employers hiring most in Barton County

Employers with the most open professional roles in this county’s cities. The county is taken from each job’s city, so roles with no city are not counted.

GPAC2 open roles
KanEquip2 open roles
Nex-Tech Classifieds1 open role

Workforce development and job centers

The public workforce board and American Job Centers serving Barton County. They offer free help with job search, training and filing for benefits.

Kansas Local Area I Workforce Development Board
Atchison, Barber, Barton, Brown, Chase, Cheyenne, Clark, Clay, Cloud, Comanche, Decatur, Dickinson, Doniphan, Douglas, Edwards, Ellis, Ellsworth, Finney, Ford, Franklin, Geary, Gove, Graham, Grant, Gray, Greeley, Hamilton, Harvey, Haskell, Hodgeman, Jackson, Jefferson, Jewell, Kearny, Kiowa, Lane, Lincoln, Logan, Marion, Marshall, McPherson, Meade, Mitchell, Morris, Morton, Nemaha, Ness, Norton, Osage, Osborne, Ottawa, Pawnee, Phillips, Pottawatomie, Pratt, Rawlins, Reno, Republic, Rice, Riley, Rooks, Rush, Russell, Saline, Scott, Seward, Shawnee, Sheridan, Sherman, Smith, Stafford, Stanton, Stevens, Thomas, Trego, Wabaunsee, Wallace, Washington, Wichita

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Cities in Barton County

Great Bend5 jobs

Other Kansas counties

All of Kansas

Laid off or looking for work in Barton County?

See what to do first and the jobs open near you.

See your options after a layoff

Sources: Census Bureau and BLS (county unemployment is not seasonally adjusted); WARN notices from Kansas’s published record; job counts from our live job board; IPEDS for colleges; CareerOneStop for workforce boards and job centers.